AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America
AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (AMA) (issn: 00845841) is a peer reviewed journal first published online after indexing scopus in 1982. AMA is published by Farm Machinery Industrial Research Corp and Shin-Norinsha Co. AMA publishes every subjects of general engineering and agricultural engineering.
WOS Indexed (2026)
30 Jun 2026 (Vol - 57 , Issue- 07 )
31 Jul 2026 (Vol - 57 , Issue 07 )
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AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America
AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (ISSN: 00845841) is a peer-reviewed journal. The journal covers Agricultural and Biological Sciences and all sort of engineering topic. the journal's scopes are in the following fields but not limited to:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication
Electronic Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Civil and architectural engineering
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Industrial and Commercial Design
Information Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Food Engineering
Effect of Acidified Base, Alkaline and Acidic Treatments on Extraction and Characterization Process of Bagasse Fiber
Bagasse fiber is a byproduct of sugarcane milling. Bagasse is currently used primarily as a fuel in sugarcane mill furnaces. However, the excess production of bagasse waste, as well as the need for sustainable resource use and carbon dioxide neutrality, is an intriguing area to explore and develop biodegradable composite materials from sugarcane bagasse fiber. The goal of this research was to figure out how to separate bagasse fiber and profile it with chemical and physical surface modification techniques in order to improve adhesion and bonding. To remove and characterize raw bagasse, three chemical treatments methods were applied. Sodium hydroxide, sodium hypochlorite, sulfuric acid, and acetic acid were among the extraction device chemicals. Mechanical, thermal, and moisture absorption properties were also considered during the characterization process. To analyze the properties, universal tensile test gage, TGA, DSC, FTIR, XRD, and biological microscope tools were used. The findings revealed that the chemical treatment had an impact on the surface modification of the fiber. When compared to other fiber treatment methods, alkaline treated fibers (concentrated sodium hydroxide) were recommended first for their ease of extraction and best modification in fiber surface property: Moreover, two percent sodium hypochlorite acidified base treatment method were also recommended for their best properties for the development of composite materials.
Design and test research on visual servo control system of tomato cluster-picking manipulator
To realize the task of tomato string-picking manipulator under the guidance of the obtained visual information, a visual servo control system for a seven-degree-of-freedom picking manipulator was designed. The visual servo control system consists of a parallel binocular camera, a 7-DOF manipulator, and a control system. The PC was adopted as the host computer, and the host computer control interface was developed based on Matlab software, which was to collect and process the image information. A STM32F103 microcontroller was used as the slave computer, which send PWM wave to control the joint motors in the instruction of host computer. The experimental results show that the visual servo control system has a 90% success rate in picking the static target, and the average picking time is 18s.The success rate for dynamic targets is 83%, with an average picking time of 22s.
Influence of EDM Parameters on Material Removal Speed when Processing SS304 Cylindrical Shaped Parts
This article presents the results of a study on optimization of electrical discharge machining (EDM) when machining SS304 stainless steel cylindrical shaped parts. The objective function of the problem is the maximum material removal speed (MRS). An experiment has been designed and performed to solve this problem. In addition, the experimental design and result's analysis were carried out by applying the Taguchi method with the support of the Minitab R19 software. Besides, the influence of the input process parameters, including the pulse on time, the pulse off time, the servo current, and the servo voltage on the MRS was explored. Furthermore, the optimal inputs of the EDM process factors to achieve the maximum MRS have been proposed.
Effect of Input Factors on Surface Roughness when EDM SS304 Cylindrical Shaped Parts
In this paper, a study on optimizing electrical discharge machining (EDM) when processing cylindrical shaped parts of stainless steel SS304 to achieve minimum surface roughness (SR) was introduced. To solve the optimization problem, an experiment was designed and performed. Besides, the Taguchi method in the Minitab R19 software was used to design the experiment and analyze the results. In addition, the influence of the input process parameters, including the pulse on time, the pulse off time, the servo current, and the servo voltage on SR was investigated. Furthermore, the optimal input factors of the EDM process for minimum SR were found.
A study on marketing pattern of traditional knowledge of dry fermented fish under valley region of Manipur
The study was carried out in three markets of Imphal west district and two markets of Bishnupur district due to having the traditional knowledge of dry fermented fish predominantly a total of 120 respondents were randomly selected the fish marketing enterprise in these areas is slightly dominated by the females in the study area. The income range of 41.67 per cent of the business falls annually in the range of ₹ 3 to 7 lakhs. Total three marketing channels involves for transferring dry fermented fish to the ultimate consumers. The total marketing cost, marketing margin and the price spread was found to be highest in channel-I with ₹ 15, ₹ 65 and ₹ 80, respectively; out of the total 75.00 per cent sold of fish including dry fermented fish and 91.67 per cent of the marketers maintained that fish supply is very regular, while most of the respondents (90.00 per cent) found as an profitable venture. During the market conduct cent per cent of the respondents get information on market situation through personal contact, even the buyers shows that majority (61.67 per cent) arrived through haggling, whereas 55.00 per cent said prices were fixed by both the sellers and the agents. The constraints are transportation, lack of storage facilities, breakage / leakage of pots, presence of exploitative middlemen etc, It is recommended that local fish marketers should be organized into co-operative groups and government should adequately provide good market facilities to improve market efficiency to reduce the marketing cost.